Cultural Region/Midwest
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Little Crow: Spokesman for the Sioux
$18.95 Add to cartGovernment officials and missionaries wanted all Sioux men to become self-sufficient farmers, wear pants, and cut their hair. The Indians, confronted by a land-hungry white population and a loss of hu… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Gary Clayton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0873511964
- Language: English
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It Happened in Indiana: Remarkable Events That Shaped History
$14.95 Add to cartThis book offers an inside look at over 25 interesting and unusual episodes that shaped the history of the Hoosier State.
- Series: It Happened in
- Author: Finch, Jackie Sheckler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0762760230
- Language: English
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In Cold Storage: Sex and Murder on the Plains
$16.95 Add to cart2016 Nebraska Book Award
In Cold Storage is an excellent history of one of the more sensational crimes in Nebraska history.— Steven Guenzel, Nebraska HistoryIn 1973 the small southwest Nebraska rail
- Series: Law in the American West
- Author: Hewitt, James W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0803256639
- Language: English
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The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central: High School Basketball at the ’68 Racial Divide
$21.95 Add to cartIn the spring of 1968, the Omaha Central High School basketball team made history with its first all-black starting lineup. Their nickname, the Rhythm Boys, captured who they were and what they did on… [more below]
- Author: Marantz, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803234341
- Language: English
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Michigan Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff
$15.95 Add to cartThis definitive collection of the Great Lakes State’s odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things is filled with quirky photographs throughout and maps for each region. Michigan Curiositie
- Series: Michigan Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff
- Author: Burcar, Colleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0762769785
- Language: English
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The Spirit of St. Louis
$24.00 Add to cartThe classic, bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning account of Charles A. Lindbergh’s historic transatlantic flightAlong with most of my fellow fliers, I believed that aviation had a brilliant future. No… [more below]
- Author: Lindbergh, Charles A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 562
- Publish Date: December 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0743237056
- Language: English
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Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
A Best Book of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Rocky Mountain News
“The Cubs against the Cardinals in the heat of August and of a pennant race–this is ba
- Author: Bissinger, Buzz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0618710531
- Language: English
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Kingdom: How Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes, and the Kansas City Chiefs Returned to Super Bowl Glory
$18.95 Read moreAfter 50 years of waiting, Kansas City Chiefs fans were hungry for a return to Super Bowl glory. In 2020, their patience was rewarded in dramatic, exuberant fashion with a second-half comeback for the… [more below]
- Author: Teicher, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1637273606
- Language: English
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The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City
$15.00 Add to cartArguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of C
- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Smith, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0226764729
- Language: English
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I Love You, Miss Huddleston: And Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana Childhood
$17.99 Add to cartIn the vein of Bill Bryson’s The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, with a dash of some of the homegrown nostalgia of The Dangerous Book for Boys and A Prairie Home Companion, humorist Philip Gull… [more below]
- Author: Gulley, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0061809551
- Language: English
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Back Roads of the Midwest: Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio
$29.99 Read moreExperience the hidden byways of America’s breadbasket through the unerring eye of landscape photographer and educator David Skernick. Covering a swath of eight states–Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisco… [more below]
- Series: Back Roads #6
- Author: Skernick, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0764364839
- Language: English
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Wisconsin Myths & Legends: The True Stories Behind History’s Mysteries
$19.95 Add to cartUnearth the mysteries, myths, strange happenings, and haunted places in Wisconsin’s history. This intriguing, lively, and easy-to-read collection of eerie stories will leave readers astonished at the … [more below]
- Series: Myths and Mysteries
- Author: Bie, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493067478
- Language: English
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Moonlit Mayhem: Quantrill’s Raid of Olathe, Kansas
$23.99 Add to cartWould you turn your back on your family and friends if the local authorities asked you to do so? Residents were asked to do just that during the Missouri/Kansas Border War prior to and during the Civi
- Author: Jones, Jonathan a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1736463306
- Language: English
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The Eli’s Cheesecake Cookbook: Remarkable Recipes from a Chicago Legend: Updated 40th Anniversary Edition with New Recipes and Stories
$30.00 Add to cartAn updated and expanded edition of The Eli’s Cheesecake Cookbook, released in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Eli’s Cheesecake.
- Author: Schulman, Maureen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 157284308X
- Language: English
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Buried Truths and the Hyatt Skywalks: The Legacy of America’s Epic Structural Failure
$29.99 Read moreIn 1981 the sudden collapse of two skywalks in Kansas City’s Hyatt hotel killed 114 people and injured another 200. There never was a public trial, nor a full airing of everything that went wrong. Ric
- Author: Serrano, Richard A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1612497152
- Language: English
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The SideRoad Columnist: Observations from an Upper Michigan Author
$18.95 Add to cartTake a trip down the U.P.’s many SideRoads with Sharon Kennedy
Penned by the author in recent years, The SideRoad Columnist presents a selection of previously published newspaper columns. To delight t
- Author: Kennedy, Sharon M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1615997369
- Language: English
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Commercial Fishermen – Great Lakes Style
$16.00 Add to cartB&W VERSION: Commercial Fishing is the most dangerous profession on a worldwide basis. So, the next time you buy fish, whether it is Great Lakes caught or Deep Sea, remember what the fishermen and the
- Author: Ojala, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: June 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1088125816
- Language: English
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Butterflies of the North Woods: Minnesota, Wisconsin & Michigan
$18.95 Add to cartThis is your guide to all 120 species of butterflies of the North Woods. Features include easy-to-use red bar phenograms, a phenology flight chart, habitat guide and binocular buying guide. The innova… [more below]
- Series: Naturalist
- Author: Weber, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0967379350
- Language: English
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Rail-Trails Illinois, Indiana, & Ohio: The Definitive Guide to the Region’s Top Multiuse Trails
$18.95 Add to cartThe experts from Rails-to-Trails Conservancy present 72 of the best rail-trails and other multiuse pathways in Illinois, Indiana, & Ohio.
- Series: Rail-Trails
- Author: Conservancy, Rails-To-Trails
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0899978487
- Language: English
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Rail-Trails Michigan & Wisconsin: The Definitive Guide to the Region’s Top Multiuse Trails
$21.95 Read moreThe experts from Rails-to-Trails Conservancy present 63 of the best rail-trails and other multiuse pathways in Michigan and Wisconsin.
- Series: Rail-Trails
- Author: Conservancy, Rails-To-Trails
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0899978738
- Language: English
